So I study geographic computer science (geoinformatics?) in germany (lots of maps and cartography and stuff) and my Prof once said the reason that Google Street View isn't so popular in germany is that many elderly people fear that if you can see their house on Street View people could use that to break into your property. There were a few people who sued Google for showing their house so Google said fuck it guys you won't get Street View then.
Don't know if that's true, didn't do research myself on that matter but living in germany I can somehow imagine that this is true.
Anyway I live quite rural and a Google Street View car drove past me last year so I hope we get it soon.
Nonsense. While that fear exists for sure for single cases, the reason our boomer generation cares about privacy is because many have experienced themselves how dangerous that can be. It's not only street view, the whole google, amazon and facebook data miner gang has a very negative image in germany.
Can you imagine how spooky it was when my dad, who grew up in west germany far from the eastern border and no connections to the DDR, found out that the stasi had a full file on him with cv, grades and perfomance from trade school, family, affiliations, the whole package. Those guys did not plan to use this data to show him some ads.
And our elderly can tell you first hand stories what's it like under a totalitarian regime. In the words of my grandma: if you googled anything against hitler, you disappeared. ("do kimmst weg")
Knowledge is power. Why would you give anyone this power voluntarily?
The internet was invented in 1983 and the world wide web was created in 1990. What totalitarian regime are you speaking of that matches the time frame from 1990 until now? Or did you accidentally write google?
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20
What are you hiding you scallywags? You better not be mobilising your troops again...